Man is a generally aggressivecreature, who instinctively stakes out and defends his territory and possessions, though its social structure controls to a great extent what territory each man can claim. The social structure varies in different parts of the world, and men from different types of social structure are known to fight long, contracted battles called wars, often not over possessions or territory but over these disagreements in the social structure, often over tiny details in the overall social structure.

In the last few centuries man has learned to construct complexmachines, which have had immense consequences on the social structure; in addition, they have allowed him to extend his food supply by more efficient systems of agriculture as well as by the production of artificial foods. They have also allowed him to extend his habitat into the extremely cold polar regions and even underwater and into space for short lengths of time. Man has even constructed communication machines that allow communication over a long distance, literally all the way around the earth, and man has constructed artificial memory systems that allow the compilation of databases such as Everything 2.

Likewise, a highly developed study of medicine has allowed man to extend his average life span beyond 70 years, and to expand the population to immense levels.

This character is usually explained as a strength (at bottom) out in the fields; although, there is also a contending theory that fields was used purely phonetically to express the word reliable, to give a combined meaning of reliable strength.

Other Information:

If you only learn one character, learn this one. If you ever find yourself in Eastern Asia or in an East-Asian section of town, by knowing this character it will ensure you go into the right bathroom!

According to Ken Burns' documentary Jazz, this is the origin of our contemporary usage of "man" as an informal all-purpose
vocative (e.g., "Hey, man, how are you?", or "Did you hear about the E2IPO, man?"). The OED quotes a source from 1960,
though nothing from the 1930s, describing that as the intent of the usage.

The mancommand is usually a horrible shell script(and it's completely different on every UN*X system!). It generally looks for a preformatted manpage; if it doesn't find one (and if the system has a *roff command...), it searches MANPATH for matching manual page, then formats it with a long pipeline. Somewhere in the pipeline you'll always find

... | nroff -man | ...

That's the man package coming into play.

gorgonzola points out that the name "man" is a horrible pun. Alltroff and nroffmacro packages have names beginning with "m". "-m" is the switch used to select a macro package, but by punning the name is considered to start with an "m" -- see ms and me for more examples.

A Japanese numeral meaning ten thousand, the next degree after sen (one thousand), hyaku (one hundred), and juu (ten). This is also where Japanese diverges from most Western representations of large numbers: for example, one hundred thousand is represented as juu-man, literally "ten ten-thousands". This continues with hyaku-man (one million; hundred ten-thousands) and sen-man (ten million; thousand ten-thousands), until you get to oku (one hundred millon; ten thousand ten-thousands).

Can be written as 万, and ten thousand is sometimes written as 1,0000 in more traditional contexts.

Man is ten thousand or accurately 10000 in Korean culture. Like in Japan it is a natural entity, meaning a word that is not a multiple, the way we think of million in Western culture
To demonstrate its usage in Korean counting:

Pronunciation
To pronounce man correctly, imagine you are speaking man with a weak Jamaican accent as in, "yeah man."

Man Won
Man won is the largest bill in Korean currency as legal tender. This can be really annoying. Imagine the largest bill being $10. The larger denominations 100,000 and higher are bank cheques meaning you can't use them without showing ID or providing personal details.

Due to inflation, the man won is the common denomination in Korea, and it can cause problems for Koreans in mental conversion to Englishthousands and millions.1

These men went about wide, and man found they none,
But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one.
R. of Glouc.

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.
Shak.

2.

Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

When I became a man, I put away childish things.
I Cor. xiii. 11.

Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man.
Dryden.

3.

The human race; mankind.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion.
Gen. i. 26.

The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope.

4.

The male portion of the human race.

Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.
Cowper.

5.

One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.

Shak.

This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements
So mixed in him that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world "This was a man!
Shak.

6.

An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

Like master, like man.
Old Proverb.

The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.
Blackstone.

7.

A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose !

8.

A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife

.

I pronounce that they are man and wife.
Book of Com. Prayer.

every wife ought to answer for her man.
Addison.

9.

One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

A man can not make him laugh.
Shak.

A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship.
Addison.

10.

One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman).

Man apeZool., a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. -- Man at arms, a designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier fully armed. -- Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering people through considerable distances; specifically Mining, a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. -- Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. -- Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. -- Man-of-the earthBot., a twining plant (Ipomea pandurata) with leaves and flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense tuberous farinaceous root. -- Man of war. (a) A warrior; a soldier. Shak. (b) Naut. See in the Vocabulary. -- To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.